Sunday, January 31, 2010

In 1600, after 8 years of repeated and hideous torture, "heretic" Giordano Bruno was burnt alive at the stake - for his belief and teaching that the Earth was not fixed at the center of the universe with everything revolving around it, including even the sun, but that it revolves around the sun, around which the other planets also revolve; and that the stars were not pin-holes in some sky-vault through which heavenly light shone, but are themselves distant suns around which other planets may revolve. He could have saved himself by recanting, but he steadfastly refused. He basically allowed himself to be burnt - for truth.

During the Vietnam war:

Buddhist monks regularly burned themselves alive - without even a whimper. They gave their lives for peace.

And now, on January 27, Wednesday, 26-year-old Daniel Shaull burnt himself at the Ungar fur store in Portland, Oregon - out of compassion. His last words were: "THE ANIMALS ARE DYING! ANIMALS DYING!" And in empathy, he died with them. No one knows who Daniel Shaull is, so let him personify the self-sacrificial spirit of our movement. We must not let these supreme sacrifices go unlauded. We cannot let these real superheroes die in vain!

2.Would physicists, chemists and astronomers say that more greenhouse gasses (GHGs) in the atompshere will trap more heat from the sun?

3.The CO2 concentration in 1880 was 285 ppm; now, it is 387 ppm. Where did the extra 102 ppm come from?

To #1: Mar's is farther from the Sun than the Moon but is warmer because it has an atmosphere with GHGs while the Moon has none. Earth has a much thicker atmosphere than Mars', with even more GHGs. In fact, without global warming, the deniers wouldn't exist.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

2 eggs in a pot of ice water on a hot stove. Question: When will the eggs begin to feel the heat? Answer: After all the ice has been melted. It take 334 joules to melt one gram of ice without raising the temperature, thus, Latent Heat. For as long as there is ice left to melt, the infused heat will go into melting the ice first, not raising the temperature. The latter will happen once the ice is gone.

Now imagine the Arctic Ocean as the pot of ice-water. The Big Heat won't come on until all the sea ice have melted in the summer, as early as 2013, then, watch out! Here is an analogy the money-minded can understand. Suppose John inherited $1 million, with which he uses to pay his credit card debt of $10,000/month. He would be good for 100 payments, during which time his credit rating would remain as A+. But come the 101th payment, and thereafter, when there is no money left, his credit rating will plummet. This is foreseeable back when his credit rating was A+. Point to note in this analogy: no more money will be added to John's inheritance account, just as no more ice will be added to the Arctic Ocean. What we see is all we have. Once the ice is gone, it's gone, and the Earth will begin to overheat.

Worse, the Big Heat will accelerate the melting of the permafrost and the sea floor methane hydrate deposits, releasing gaseous methane by the billions of tons into the atmosphere, thus kick-starting the dreaded Runaway Global Heating.

About Anthony Marr

Anthony Marr
* has a degree in physics
* is the author of "OMNI-SCIENCE and the Human Destiny" (2003) and "Homo Sapiens SAVE YOUR EARTH" (2008)
* 1995, he cleaned up N. American Chinatowns of endangered species medicines
* 1996, he led "the highest-profile anti-trophy-hunting campaign in Canada" (Globe and Mail).
* 1997-1999, he worked in 3 tiger reserves in India.
* 1999, he founded Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE).
* 2004/2005, he conducted operations in Japan against whaling and dolphin slaughter.
* 2003-2011, completed 7 Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE tours, each covering 30-45 states over 4-7 months), and spoke at the National AR Conference every year
* 2009, he founded the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
* 2010, he won the Henry Spira Grassroots Activist Award.
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